matt, what has happened is the ground and water is still warm because we didn't have a least 2 weeks of cold to get the frost driven down. now with all this snow it is insulating the it very well. the lakes here have 4-6 inches f ice but with the weight of the snow it pushes the ice down. when the ice goes down water goes on top of the ice between the snow. so this makes slush. the extra weight make for very very bad ice conditions. no one around here has even driven a ski-doo across a small lake because you will just break thru. it must stop snowing and give us lots and lots of cold weather to get the ice to freeze.

thansk